Can wealth give happiness? look around and see, what gay distress! what splendid misery! Whatever fortunes lavishly can pour, the mind annihilates and calls for more.

No one who's white thinks he's innocent. No one who's black thinks he's guilty.

For most of the world, civil and political rights... come as luxuries that are far away in the future.

It stands to reason that unloved and unwanted children are going to get into crime.

The Soviet Union is going to have a human-rights explosion. You'll have hundreds of thousands of dissidents.

Slavery didnt break up the black families as much as liberal welfare rules.

There is a sense in which the United States Ambassador speaks to the United States, as well as for the United States. I have always seen my role as a thermostat, rather than a thermometer. So I'm going to be actively working... for my own concerns. I have always had people advise me on what to say, but never on what not to say.